amative

His amative propensities, it will be seen, were having their way once more.

I should think that his amative bump was uncommonly large.

The waiting was tedious, and having been long denied, the amative element could not brook further delay.

For that matter, though not amative to any considerable degree so far as I have discovered, I was never outside the atmosphere of women until now.

Forty-second Street had been a sort of Hell's Gate, a place for the grotesquely amative intermingling of species.

I fully expected that we would be even later, for the pro cess of fastening buttons has the effect of arousing Emerson's amative instincts.

You have shown with irresistible clearness how inseparably the combative and destructive instincts are bound up with the amative and vital ones in the human psyche.

There was something in Phillotson's tone now which seemed to show that his three months of remarriage with Sue had somehow not been so satisfactory as his magnanimity or amative patience had anticipated.

For two and a half centuries longer, the English continued to shun this allegedly amative fruit and, though Jefferson grew the tomato in his garden, most Americans shared the puritanical revulsion of their English cousins.

On the parody site, which mimics the design of a legitimate M.I.T. Web page, the Erotic Computation Group (ecg.media.mit.edu) claims to study "the implications of modern technology on human eroticism in its myriad forms" as well as ways to "broaden the range of human amative expression."

He was deeply hurt by the death of his mother when he was 9 years old, and he spent the rest of his amative life compensating for that hurt, first by secretly living with a woman who was 26 years his senior, and then by marrying a highly aggressive pen pal from America.